Regards from the Imperial Center on Coruscant, bustling center of tourism and industry. We uphold the highest standard of living here, for all our Imperial Citizens.

Unfortunately, there are certain terrorists out there who want to destroy your way of living and quality of life. We must oppose them at all costs. Each and every one of the citizens of Alderaan knew this when they were harboring these terrorists. Thus, extreme measures were taken.

We will do whatever is necessary to protect our citizens from threats both within and outside the galaxy.

Mos Eisley is a fine establishment patronized by many law abiding, upstanding citizens of the Empire. The worst thing to ever happen there was an unprovoked assault by a now-deceased disgraced Jedi "Master".

And DON’T ever let anyone tell you it was a defenseless planet. They sent out Princess Leia on a mission to aid the rebels. That should tell you enough about that planet. Who knows what else they were up to.

what i loved about reddit trolls like /u/fabulousferd was how they would play on reddit’s pet hates, making a kind of social commentary. this is way less elegant; it’s just hateful and inflammatory and i feel annoyed.

Honestly, that's a bit disrespectful. Like, I get that it needed to be done, and I get that the benefits of destroying Alderaan vastly outweighed the costs, but innocents did die, as sometimes happens in war. We shouldn't just be making light of it.

Exactly. It was a victory and it was vital for the protection against rebel terrorists and a corrupt rebel government, but innocent law abiding citizens of the Empire lost their lives too. We shouldn’t forget that

Some of the now not Canon novels stated that some of the people aboard the Death Star came from Alderaan. Something else I found interesting about that particular novel is that Alderaan colonized some of the planets in the Star Wars galaxy using sleeper ships, which might explain why there are so many humans everywhere.

It was a kingdom as well so all those colonised planets were part of a commonwealth. Basically space United Kingdom.

The core worlds all sent sleeper ships. Corellia was more involved in doing that. also thebalderaanian colonized worlds werent part of a commonwealth like the ex empire. Also Fun fact, naboo was colonized actually by the core world of grizzzmalt.

I don't want to sound like a rebel sympathiser but everytime I see a picture of Alderaan I just get like teary eyes. It didn't need to be destroyed. All those wasted lives. 2 billion people dead in a matter of seconds. Some of the inhabitants of the planet were with us, the Empire. I don't like Grand Moff Tarkin. It shouldn't have happened.

Sadly the destruction of Alderaan was a necessary act to show that being rich wont protect you from the Empire, I'm also sure the majority of our supporters would have left the planet when they discovered their government was hiding terrorists and war criminals.

It was Grand Moff Tarkin, who tested the laser on Alderaan, if it was up to me I would have simply left Alderaan alone. The one who actually fired the laser developed what I believe to be PTSD, he couldn't believe what he had just done and when it came to the Battle of Yavin he waited.